North Korea Brings Rocket Site Back to Life
Source: PoliticalWire
March 8, 2019 at 3:29 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
The U.S. is watching in real time developments at a long-range rocket site that North Korea is believed to have rebuilt, NBC News reports.
The Sohae facility has been used in the past for satellite launches which employ similar technology to what is required to fire intercontinental ballistic missiles. It is now back to normal operating status, according to new commercial images and analysis from two teams of researchers.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-rocket-site-being-monitored-real-time-u-s-n980846?cid=public-rss_20190308
Some reports say that photographic evidence says it started in "mid-February." The reports of the activity started a couple of days after the negotiations failed, with the assumption being the restart happened after the negotiations failed. It took a few days longer for somebody to come along and try to point out when the activity itself started, and few actually liked having to push the restart time back. Didn't sit quite right.
Gotta wonder if that wasn't part of the reason the negotiations went wobbly.
On edit: Earliest photo I can find reference to is 2/22, 5 days before the summit started.
MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)I feel SO much safer now that the "deal-maker" has done his magic!
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)soryang
(3,299 posts)Increased activity noted as movement of materials by trucks considered missile related by South Korean intelligence at a second site was reported in this Channel A News program. That site is the Sanumdong missile general research complex 112 km to the southeast of Tongchang Ri. This site is considered significant because it is a place where ICBMs, like the Hwasong 15, are assembled and produced.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/117811850
Joel Witt has an opinion up on 38North.com suggesting that perhaps the Sohae improvements may be getting ready for a space launch April 15, for Kim Il Sung's birthday. He compares the issues involved in the breakdown of the so called leap year deal in 2012 due to a missile launch in April of that year.
The Leap Day Deal: A Cautionary Tale for the Trump Administration
BY: JOEL S. WIT
https://www.38north.org/2019/03/editor030719/
*38 North is a website devoted to informed analysis of North Korea.
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)I'm so tired of winning all the time. I hear we just had the biggest trade deficit in history!? Another record set with this complete incompetent jackass.
cheezmaka
(737 posts)They just made a fool of him AGAIN....smh 2020 can't come soon enough
Maxheader
(4,374 posts)Stupid imbecile.."out of sight...out of mind"...
Just like its barricaded life in the white house...